Escaping the modern world on a multiday walk in nature is an increasingly popular global holiday pastime, but as demand rises are we creating too many trails, huts and lodges within our national parks? Good Weekend senior writer Konrad Marshall and The Age environment reporter Miki Perkins discuss how walks can be made more accessible, without devaluing and degrading the very wilderness that makes them so special

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Escaping the modern world on a multiday walk in nature is an increasingly popular global holiday pastime, but as demand rises are we creating too many trails, huts and lodges within our national parks? Good Weekend senior writer Konrad Marshall and The Age environment reporter Miki Perkins discuss how walks can be made more accessible, without devaluing and degrading the very wilderness that makes them so special
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